Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

[Reinhard Tartler]

Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org> writes:

>> We cannot remove the img_convert patch because that will instantly break
>> vlc and other packages that use the old swscaler API. The fact that the
>> debian-multimedia package doesn't include this patch while providing the
>> same binary name has caused us quite a lot of bug reports.
>
> Me too. The difference : a simply bother upsream authors to move to
> the new swscaler API and now all my packages build without img_convert :)

.. or in case it doesn't work, remove packages that are not fixed, like vlc.

for vlc: upstream has already ported to the new API, but in another
branch. For the branch debian ships I was told it was not easy to port
that work. I haven't investigated this, but perhaps Christophe (who is
in CC) can comment on this.

I think a testrebuild showed a couple of other packages were affected by
this as well. At least gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg has already been fixed
AFAIK, but I don't remember what other packages are also affected.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4